Obtain maximum likelihood estimates

[TomJerry]

Problem :
It is assumed that the arrival of the number of calls X per hour follow a poisson distribution with parameter \lambda, A random sample X1 = x1 , X2 = x2,....xn is taken .Obtain the maximum likelihood estimates of the average arrival rate.

Please can you provide me with some reference material so that i can solve such questions on my own .

[ych22]

Problem :
It is assumed that the arrival of the number of calls X per hour follow a poisson distribution with parameter \lambda, A random sample X1 = x1 , X2 = x2,....xn is taken .Obtain the maximum likelihood estimates of the average arrival rate.

Please can you provide me with some reference material so that i can solve such questions on my own .

Wikipedia's entry on MLE?

[SW VandeCarr]

Here's a reference on the procedure for several common distributions.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MaximumLikelihood.html